The Lisbon new international airport: The story of a decision-making process and the role of Strategic Environmental Assessment

Environmental assessment (EA) is widely used as a means of incorporating environmental considerations into decision-making, primarily at the project level. The scope of EA has been expanded considerably in recent years to include earlier stages of the decision-making process, namely, policies, plans and programmes. Strategic environmental assessment (SEA) facilitates a planning approach to addressing the overall, cumulative effects of the projects that occur as a result of these decisions. This paper demonstrates the potential benefits of SEA in the assessment and management of cumulative effects, using a case study of recent hydroelectric development planning in Newfoundland, Canada. It goes on to illustrate how SEA could be used to address potential cumulative effects at the various stages of such a decision-making process. Through the case study, the paper also explores a number of issues in the implementation of such a planning approach.

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STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT: THE NEED TO TRANSFORM THE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT PARADIGMS

Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management ◽

10.1142/s1464333207002731 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 09 (02) ◽

pp. 211-234 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

RODRIGO JILIBERTO HERRERA

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Environmental Assessment ◽

Environmental Values ◽

Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Theoretical Ground ◽

Strategic Decisions ◽

Environmental System ◽

Environmental Dimension ◽

Set Up

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) needs to develop its own theoretical ground and its related concepts to be able to address the challenges of environmentally improving complex strategic decisions such as policies, plans and programmes (PPP). According to its conceptual specificity, SEA requires an autonomous methodology. Its main feature is that it must be able to dialogue with the decision-making process to ensure the decision related environmental values are duly taken into account. This paper proposes two linked concepts that could help to set up an autonomous conceptual ground for the SEA: The concept of consistency requirements of decisions and the concept of decision related environmental values. In addition, SEA needs to identify the specific environmental dimension of strategic decisions. The concept of environmental impact describes perfectly the environmental dimension of projects. This paper proposes the concept of the sectorial environmental system as the genuine representation of the strategic environmental dimension of strategic decisions and therefore as the key target for SEA activities.

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The effect of work stressors on decision making: أثر ضغوط العمل على عملية اتخاذ القرار دراسة ميدانية على القيادات الإدارية مطار الملك عبد العزيز الدولي بجدة

المجلة العربية للعلوم ونشر الأبحاث مجلة العلوم الاقتصادية والإدارية والقانونية ◽

10.26389/ajsrp.h030919 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Hesham Saad Bin Dajam, Ahmed Saleh Alhazaymeh

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Work Stressors ◽

Job Tasks ◽

International Airport ◽

Social Pressures ◽

Administrative Leaders ◽

Study Population ◽

Job Role

The research aims to identify the role of work pressures on the decision-making process by applying to the administrative leaders at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah. The nature of the work, the ambiguity of the job role, social pressures), and the dependent variable, which is the decision-making process. The research concluded to provide a set of recommendations that serve the study population, namely: clarifying the roles and functions required of the staff of King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah does not occur conflict between these functions, the distribution of job tasks between the employees or division of the task on the same worker at King Abdul Aziz Airport Jeddah International Airport, providing the appropriate environment of light and atmosphere suitable for workers at King Abdul-Aziz International Airport in Jeddah.

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Studies on Strategic Environmental Assessment in China — Implementation and Effectiveness

Advanced Materials Research ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amr.518-523.1202 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 518-523 ◽

pp. 1202-1205

Author(s):

Hui Zhi Wang ◽

Jia Liu ◽

He Xu ◽

Hong Tao Bai

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Environmental Impact ◽

Literature Review ◽

Environmental Assessment ◽

Strategic Environmental Assessment ◽

Decision Making Process ◽

Organizational Changes ◽

Different Levels

Based on literature review and questionnaire analysis, this article examines how strategic environmental assessment (SEA) has been carried out at different levels in China since the implement of the EIA law in 2003 by highlighting the development and inadequacies of SEA, and factors contributed to SEA effectiveness have been discussed. SEA is only relatively effective in preventing or alleviating adverse environmental impact of plans, rather than influencing decision-making process. According to analysis, this paper regards that desirable institutional, organizational changes and sectoral collaboration would help enhance SEA’s effectiveness.

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